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Ethics for Sale at Wal-Mart
- April 24, 2012
- Posted by: Ted Bullen
- Category: Ethics, Information Technology, News, Retail
No CommentsIt was reported, over the weekend, that Wal-Mart has been involved, over a number of years, in bribery of high-level Mexican officials in order to fast-track building permits in the company’s largest international division, Wal-Mart de Mexico. This activity took place, while the company was actively, along with other large businesses, lobbying to soften the
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Where’s the Beef? Apparently It’s In Your Taco!
- April 21, 2011
- Posted by: Ted Bullen
- Category: Brand Revitalization, Consumer Products, Legal, News, Quality
Yesterday, Alabama-based law firm, Beasley Allan, dropped its class action law suit, filed in behalf of a California woman, against Taco Bell. The suit claimed that Taco Bell’s meat filling did not meet the federal standards required to be called “beef,” because it “only contained 36% meat.” Taco Bell fought back aggressively, from the moment
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HP Rides the Slippery Slope from Ethics Violations to Charges of Corruption
- September 10, 2010
- Posted by: Ted Bullen
- Category: Ethics, Legal, News
Yesterday, it became known that the U.S. was widening its investigation into possible bribes paid by Hewlett-Packard to help win a contract in Russia. The government probe began in April when authorities arrested three HP employees in Germany and Switzerland who were charged, by German prosecutors, with bribery, embezzlement, and tax evasion in connection with
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Honest Services Too Intangible to Abolish Corruption
- June 24, 2010
- Posted by: Ted Bullen
- Category: Government, Legal, News
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court substantially limited the “Honest Services” law which purports to make it a federal crime to employ a scheme or artifice to defraud another of the intangible right of “honest services.” This 1988 law has been applied by federal prosecutors in public fraud cases to strengthen the case against corrupt business
